Let's get this straight. Americans don't like big government, and think universal health care is "commie"...but you want your government to bail you out when you don't have house insurance? Am I missing something..did I read that wrong?

indarwinsshadow:Let's get this straight. Americans don't like big government, and think universal health care is "commie"...but you want your government to bail you out when you don't have house insurance? Am I missing something..did I read that wrong?

indarwinsshadow:Let's get this straight. Americans don't like big government, and think universal health care is "commie"...but you want your government to bail you out when you don't have house insurance? Am I missing something..did I read that wrong?

It's almost like if you have 300,000,000 people in the country you can find someone to wholeheartedly give whatever dumb comment dovetails best with whatever point you want to make.

White people problems are so much duller than dead black people floating face down in toxic waste water for a week or two while the ineffectual, corrupt, and partisan feds do nothing and the stupid cracker police shoot willy-nilly at every non-white person they see, creating and maintaining the illusion that Africanized-American looters are shooting people when in fact most of the potential looters are quietly and sadly waiting for help seeing as they are the 47% and therefore fat, lazy, stupid, dependant, non-white Democratic Party voters, not bootstrapy strong Libertarian white men like the average looter.

Speaking of state-sponsored criminal classes, how are the super-rich and other Republicans holding out uptown? Do they take comfort that they have won the battle, even as they lose the war? Does the fact that the 47% downtown are starving, with power and unable to post to their Facebook and Twitter accounts console them for their losses on the political front?

After all, Katrina gave Republicans just what they wanted, as did the Bush administration. But with Obama in office, there's actually a snowball's chance in Hell poor people will receive, to use an unpopular four letter word, H-E-L-P, if only after the Election.

I hope they vote in record numbers. At least they'll be able to keep warmer in line for a polling booth. Maybe they can burn their ballots or use them for toilet paper. A good and proper use for ballots in a completely farked-up democracy, I feel and think.

Nature and God have once again shiat upon the Republican Party Platform. And I'm not just tallking about the Richard the Third standing there befuddled by so many lies he can't remember what he said a moment ago let alone yesterday.

This guy is all sorts of bent-out-of-shape. Five days since the hurricane and he's still waiting for his help. but it seems to me that people are far too used to instant gratification and don't realize that bureaucracy takes time.

Sorry about your house and your kids and wife man, but the reality is nobody wants to pay for these things, very likely including you. You are not the only person in the room, and there are probably a few folks who are worse of than you.

indarwinsshadow:Let's get this straight. Americans don't like big government, and think universal health care is "commie"...but you want your government to bail you out when you don't have house insurance? Am I missing something..did I read that wrong?

Ass-hat of the year award goes to:"I don't why that should matter. We pay into just like anybody else does," Ken Fisko said. "It's government funded, and we all know we fund the government."

If you don't pay for insurance on your second (ie. optional) home, then don't expect anyone to help you out when it is flooded. FEMA assistance is to keep people off the streets - by definition "second home" owners will not be on the streets.

I wonder how many are pissed that their homeowners' doesn't cover flooding/surge. READ YOUR DAMNED POLICY, PEOPLE.

FEMA is not your piggy bank. YOU buy private insurance, YOU must take appropriate steps to mitigate against COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE damages (like from flooding, if you live in a coastal area), and always assume that YOU are on the hook for rebuilding.

This must be that personal responsibility I keep hearing about.

And this guy: "We pay into just like anybody else does," Ken Fisko said. "It's government funded, and we all know we fund the government." should understand that FEMA/the government is not an ATM. The GOP may have been pushing this line that every dollar you pay into government needs to come back to you at your demand, but it simply does not work that way. FEMA is bound by the laws that created it, which say that second+ homes can get stuffed. If you can afford that second home near the coast, you should have been able to afford some insurance for it; maybe raised it on stilts or built a floodwall. FEMA has grants for non-disaster mitigation efforts - so feel free to use some of that money you sent in. Be a responsible citizen and know some things before you're literally picking up the pieces and relying on your government for help.

Why would someone let an automated system drive them to tears without trying to reach an agent and clarify things?

Some phone systems are wicked aggravating on a good day. If someone were already upset and emotional (e.g. due to a disaster), trying to navigate a craptacular menu might be enough to induce tears, especially if there is no obvious way to reach a live person.

A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God asking the government for help.

Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, "Jump in, I can save you."

The stranded fellow shouted back, "No, it's OK, I'm praying to God and he FEMA is going to save me."

So the rowboat went on.

Then a motorboat came by. "The fellow in the motorboat shouted, "Jump in, I can save you."

To this the stranded man said, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. FEMA will do everything for me. I have faith."

So the motorboat went on.

Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, "Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety."

To this the stranded man again replied, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. FEMA will send out a truckload of cash for my second home. I have faith."

So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.

Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. went down. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God FEMA, at which point he exclaimed, "I had faith in you but you didn't save me, you let me drown didn't pay for everything ten seconds after the water left. I don't understand why!"

To this God FEMA replied, "I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?"